The Winner of my Pink Soup is...

First a very big thank you to all of you who visited me during the 2nd blog reveal and for all your nice comments. I have yet to finish making my Bead Soup rounds. But what a wonderful blog hop it was. Great numbers, great talent and great people. Thank you Lori, for a job wonderfully done!

Now to announce the winner of this Pink Soup, in honor of our lovely host...

The winner is Lupe Meter of Gem's PC Corner. Hello Lupe, Please send me an email with your address and I will get your package of Bead Soup ingredients out to you.

Winner of my Fish Bead Giveaway

The winner of my Fish Bead giveaway from the previous post is...

Kym Hunter of KymHunterDesigns. Congratulations Kym. Please email me your address and I will get your brass Fish Bead out to you.
Thank you to all you visited me and had nice things to say about my necklace. See you again soon.
Enjoy your weekend and have a Happy Independance Day!

Let me Introduce you to the winner...

Tonight I used the random number generator from Random.org to obtain a number between 1 and 106 to choose the winner of my 'Sunshine on my Shoulder' earrings and the number was 24.... Esme.

I would also like to thank all 106 of you who stopped by to comment on my necklace and earrings. Your visit and your comments mean so much to me. Thank you!

Now, I would like to introduce you all to Esme of Chocolate & Croissants. I have got to know Esme for a few months now, she is not a beader! She loves to cook, she loves to read, she loves to travel, she loves cats and she loves everything French. I have got some great tips on cooking and books to read from her, so I am glad I am able to give her something in return.

Her review lead me to read this book by Beth Hoffman and what a delight it was! My copy is still making the rounds at my workplace. I urge you to check out Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt. If you love to read or cook, she regularly reviews books, and yes, cook books too. So pay her a visit, and feed the cats.

Esme, I will be in touch with you for an address to send you the earrings you won. I hope you will like and enjoy them.

Happy Weekend, look at what I won!

Photograph coutesy of Birgitta

I wake up this Saturday morning, get the coffee brewing and sit down to check my blog... and I have news from Sweden, that I won! Yes, Birgitta picked my name as the lucky winner of nine of her colorful ceramic goodies... Thank you, Birgitta!

Birgitta's artistic talents caught my eye when she was picked as the Designer of the Week in the January Challenge sponsored by Art Bead Scene . Her entry, her bracelet ... filled with good vibrations!

Read about Birgitta's ceramics and colorful jewelry creations in her blog and check out her Boho Chic Etsy shop.

The Winners and Dressing Up Your Donut!

The winners of a pair of Gemstone Donuts from my Rings&Things goodie bag, determined by a random number generator, are Needlewings of A Frayed of Fibers and Stonesetter. Congratulations to both! Each of you will receive a pair of donuts, one of Picture Jasper and one of the green donuts. Please send me an email with your name and address so that I can mail your donuts to you. Enjoy!

A big thank you to all who visited my blog and participated. Your visits and comments are so appreciated.

Green Aventurine and Jade

Picture Jasper

Thank you to Dave of Rings&Things for sending me such a generous goodie bag.

Not having much experience in working with donuts, I decided I would look around to see how fellow beaders dress up their donuts.

Of course, there is always the easy way out, which I choose when I created my multi-gemstone and donut necklace with premade bails. A nice selection of these metal donut bails can be found at Rings&Things.

Then there are the more creative and gorgeous ways of doing it too.

Cyndi of Beading Arts has a free tutorial for a simple square stitch bail for a donut; while About.com:Beadwork has a free tutorial for making a Peyote Stitched Donut Bail. For something a little different check out Kassie's beadwork bail, she even has a variety of tutorials that can be purchased. If only I can purchase time and patience...

Wrapping wire around the donut to create your very own simple, or glorious, or elaborate bail is another option and I found many tutorials for beginners and advanced wire workers on Jewelrylessons.com.  They were all very beautiful, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be this one... simple yet different, wrapped by made by Edis Treasures at Jewelrylessons.com

Tiger Eye Donut dressed by EdisTreasures

Have a good week, everyone!

And the winner is...

Using a random number generator the winner of the $25.00 gift certificate for beads of their choice from thebeadchest.com is Boot-C from Mamas got to Doodle! 

Congratulations to the winner and a big thank you to every one who participated. Boot-C commented that if she won her choice of beads, she would choose snake beads. The original snake beads were actually made from the vertebrae of snakes, but the modern version is made of glass!

Turquoise Snake Beads

Enjoy Boot-C, can't wait to see what you make with them...

And a very big thank you to thebeadchest.com for the $25.00 gift certificate giveaway, and a wonderful introduction to the beads of Africa!

African beads for sale!

The Bead Chest is a leading online retailer of trade beads, millefiori beads, Krobo beads, and other great glass beads.

Happy October! And the winner is...

Happy October! 

Can you believe it was 65 deg. F this morning in the Tampa Bay area?

Today I name the winner of my Necklace Giveaway!

chosen by the Random Number Generator...

And the winner is Dawn Marie of Designs by Dawn Marie.

This happpens to be a special week for Dawn Marie, she also celebrates her birthday.

Happy Birthday Dawn Marie!

Thank you everyone, who visited and commented on my giveaway. Your experience and insights into the use of Facebook to promote your business will be put to good use.

Watch for another exciting Giveaway, coming this weekend.

Look at What I Made!

Back in late May, I won this beautiful stoneware pendant from MaryAnn Carroll.

Wouldn't you agree that it is the perfect fall pendant?

So check out what I made with it.

I used Blue Tiger Eye rounds wire-wrapped with Copper wire (good practice and therapeutical for me), a couple of yellow Tiger Eye rounds, three bronze coin pearls, with one circled by a flat Abalone ring. I thought the Abalone ring captured the blue arc markings on the pendant. I made the necklace extra long (20 inches), so that it could be worn with a thicker, fall, layered wardrobe. The copper clasp was made by Kira of Original Beadwork.com.

If you want to see more of Maryann's stoneware pendants and beads check out her shop, artisanbeadsplus.com. I am saving the pearls and two beautiful stoneware buttons that she sent me along with this pendant for another project. Thank you Maryann.

I like the way the necklace turned out, do you like it? Well, if you do, and you would like to win this necklace, please check back tomorrow. I am planning to give it away! In return, I ask that you let me pick your brains! For answers to some simple questions, your name will be put in a hat to win this necklace in time to accessorize your fall wardrobe.

AND THE LUCKY WINNER IS....

THANK YOU, everyone for all your lovely comments.

I, like everyone else who took part in the Bead Soup Party, had a wonderful time. I have visited almost all of the blogs and was amazed at the awesome collection of jewelry created for this party. I still have a few blogs to visit and will do so in the next few days. We have been having terribly strong thundershowers and lightning almost every afternoon/evening this past few days, and sitting at a computer is not something I like to do in the middle of such a storm.

Tonight, using the random number generator I chose the lucky winner of this pair of earrings made from beads given to me by my bead soup partner Missficklemedia, Shannon.

52 wonderful people stopped by to comment and the one lucky winner is

RockerJewlz

Congratulations!

Please email me your address and I will mail your prize to you.
I leave for a 4th of July Family Reunion on Friday, so I will get the earrings in the mail to you on my return.

Thank you again, Lori, Shannon and all of the bead soup party-goers.
Looking forward to the next Bead Soup Party!
Have a great weekend and a Happy 4th of July to all!

ANNOUNCING THE WINNER!

The winner of the lot of Vintage "Twinkle Buttons" is 

Lisa of Lucid Moon Studios.

Congratulations, Lisa!

I will be in touch with you Lisa for your address to mail these out to you.

Thank you to all those who visited my blog and left a comment.

Watch for another giveaway along with the unveiling of my soup creation tomorrow June 22nd.
See you all then!

OMG I Won!

Got home from work and there was an email from MaryAnn saying that I was the lucky winner of her most gorgeous pendant. Yippee!

Photograph courtesy of MaryAnn

Does it not remind you of Boulder Opal or Pietersite? I love it and I cannot believe I won! I have had MaryAnn's ceramic beads on my wish list and looks like my wishes are beginning to come true!

Check out MaryAnn's wonderful array of ceramic beads at her Etsy shop it would be hard to choose which ones to buy. You can read all about her creative process in her blog. If you would like to check out the wonderful jewelry designed with MaryAnn's beads, take a look at her website.

Thank you MaryAnn.